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Suspect in Makiki BB gun shooting released on bail

CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM
A Honolulu police officer photographed Elijah Spoozak

Police are still looking for the person suspected of shooting an air gun at a group of students Friday, injuring a 15-year-old boy.

Following the incident on Piikoi Street near Mott-Smith Drive, police arrested Justin Perry Souvana, 25, who was the driver of the white van which the teenaged victims said pulled up and stopped, and a passenger fired at them.

Police found a van that matched the description parked at the 1400 block of Kona Street near Ala Moana Center and arrested Souvana.

Souvana, who did not give police a home address when he was arrested, was booked on suspicion of six counts second-degree assault.

However, Souvana was later charged with second-degree hindering prosecution and released after he posted $2,000 bail Friday night.

Police say this was the 18th BB or pellet gun shooting, and the sixth incident in which people were injured, since Sept. 22.

Police said there were four to six victims.

Past shootings began Sept. 22 when a teen in front of Highlands Intermediate School in Pearl City was struck in the back by pellet gun ammunition and received minor injuries. That same day, a Pearl City man said he saw two teens drive up to his house in an older-model green Toyota sedan and that one fired at his two dogs in the front yard.

Three more shootings occurred Wednesday, including another teen victim near Waipahu Intermediate School.

A tour bus also was hit on the H-1 freeway near Aloha Stadium. Pet dog shootings have also occurred in Pearl City and Windward Oahu.

Police ask anyone who has information to call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or *CRIME on a cellphone.

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